This is such an interesting question on this, I agree. With the way the author haphazardly handles such topics, I highly doubt about the way they treat the main couple will be any better. Better to read and see
This may be an odd take, but I feel like this could be a vent/trauma processing work for the author. Too many of the things in here are real and could not be understood in the amount of depth this has without living through something like it. I love this story so much, but I need to take breaks through parts and chapters because of how heavy it hits and how much I can relate.
Maybe the author will make it end in a way for how they are now or what they wish to happen for themselves
I’m wondering what the author is aiming to do… Because I don’t think Gyeol is mentally/emotionally equipped to help Yesung the way he needs. I keep thinking back to that dream he had in the first 1 or 2 chapters. I don’t know if he’s supposed to be Yesung’s salvation orrrrr just a better/kinder version of this pervert old man. Because there’s absolutely NO love in this manhwa. Just sexual obsession